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Glove
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Paper thin white kid gloves. Thumbs have circular hole with gusset. Top edges scalloped with pinking punch. Stitched with white silk with out-turned seams. Printed with colored portrait of bust of “Maria Cristina - Regina de Espana [y..no Sabias Inside of one stamped in a circle: “PQD Felix Bovirx” [or ?] with indecipherable inked intials like “LZ”Spanish gloves
G2000.080
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Accessory
Historic Costume
Gloves
Female
Kid Leather
White
1830
glove
kid
leather
pinking
Maria Cristina - Regina de Espana
accessory
Mari´a Cristina, Queen, consort of Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 1806-1878